When was weston favell built

The church lies close to the Weston Favell shopping centre, which opened in The contractors were the local firm of A.

Glenn and Sons, who had also built the cathedral additions in , and the church of St Aidan at Kingsthorpe in The interior is notable for its wall paintings, by Martin Hughes from Cheltenham. The church is built in a dip, with the parish social facilities and attached presbytery located at the lower level, and the church above, reached by a concrete bridge from the footpath.

The pyramid is clad in profiled aluminium sheeting, with an integral lantern towards the apex giving top light to the interior. Weston Favell appears to have possessed many mills at one time, and in four are mentioned fn.

The church of ST. PETER consists of chancel, 29 ft. The tower is of lateth-century date, of Transitional Norman character, and the chancel belongs mainly to the first half of the 13th century, being a rebuilding at that time of a 12th-century chancel, the priest's doorway of which was retained.

This doorway is earlier than the tower and indicates the existence of a midth-century building. The north aisle dates only from but takes the place of a former aisle which was injured by the fall of the spire in fn.

The spire has never been rebuilt, but its base, covered with a low pyramidal roof, still remains, forming a rather unusual feature. In pulling down the north wall of the nave in , preparatory to rebuilding the new aisle, a large number of stones of various periods were found, some in the window-jambs, others at the bottom of the footings and in other parts of the walls.

These included a Transitional Norman capital and base, fn. There was a general restoration in The tower and chancel are of rubble with dressed quoins, and all the roofs are covered with slates. The chancel is unbuttressed and has a modern east window fn. The south wall is pierced by an original window of three lancets under a single hood-mould west of the priest's doorway, the portion farther east being blank.

The doorway has a semicircular arch of two square orders and hood-mould, with chamfered jambs and imposts. There is a trefoiled piscina recess in the plastered wall, and in the north wall a square-headed aumbry.

The wide semicircular chancel arch is of two chamfered orders. In its present form the nave is modern, with double lancet windows and an arcade of pointed arches on round pillars.

The tower is of four receding stages, and is considerably battered in the upper stage. The round-headed west doorway has long been blocked and little or no architectural detail remains: above it in the second stage is a double lancet with head cut from a single stone, but the third stage is blank. The bell-chamber windows are of two widely spaced lancets with separate hood-moulds carried round the tower as a string.

The pointed tower arch is of three square orders, with chamfered imposts and hood-mould. The font is of 15th-century date, with octagonal panelled bowl, similar to that at Abington, and the oak pulpit is Elizabethan on a modern pedestal: a wroughtiron hour-glass stand has been retained. The slab in the sanctuary floor which marked the burial-place of the Rev. We worked closely with both HFM Architects and main contractor Base Build Services, to deliver a modern washroom area, including disabled toilets and baby change facilities, all designed to match the new bright and contemporary centre.

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